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Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 27

Mandala is like a ladder, whereas the view from the top is Gohonzon and the experience is Buddha.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 26

Our friends and loved ones are the very motivation to redouble our own strength of conviction and resolve in our practice and experience of Buddhahood.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 25

Gohonzon is the lifting of the eyelid from the Buddha eye, providing the witnessing and experience of the Dharma.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala andGohonzon - part 24

Build your Confidence and develop your Compassion; this is your emulation of Nichiren and your attitude for complete and perfect enlightenment.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 23

Life is ongoing. Your experience of life though, is of YOUR making. This is the purpose of awakening.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 22

The wake of the boat is not your experience of “boating”, and nor is your description of the boat. Chanting is your calling forth of the experience of “Buddha”, for you to be “Buddha-ING”. Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 21

“Buddha” describes the reality of all phenomena since “time without beginning” that can be perceived and experienced by the sentient mind. Our Samsaric realization of that truth is GoHonzon. The reality of that truth with or without sentience is the “Engine of Life”.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 20

All of Nichiren’s letters, treatises, guidance, are all in essence discussions on the manifestation in the mind of “GoHonzon”. In a few letters Nichiren confirms his bequeathing of a mandala for the focus and single-minded practice of his followers to invoke this GoHonzon mind.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 19

The entire universe is the “Engine of Life”. Your realization of this is Gohonzon and your experience of this truth is Buddha.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm

Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzon - part 18

The “ceremony in the sky” is actually a visualization of the entire cosmos. Our experience of Buddhahood is not simply local to our Samsaric identity, but rather the experience of the entire cosmos in each moment as it ‘moves’ through time, instantiating all potential anew in each and every moment.Nichiren on Mandala and Gohonzonhttp://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm